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The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls
The Colosseum, Rome
RomeThe Colosseum

Photos: Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Rome by Tournasol7, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Ocho Rios or Rome?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Ocho Rios for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Ocho Rios’s own page.

Choose Rome for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Rome’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Ocho Rios 78, Rome 50: Ocho Rios leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Ocho Rios 42, Rome 82: Rome leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Ocho Rios 16, Rome 99: Rome leads by 83 points.
Nightlife. Ocho Rios 28, Rome 58: Rome leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ocho Rios 72, Rome 58: Ocho Rios leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Ocho Rios 56, Rome 92: Rome leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Ocho Rios 60, Rome 50: Ocho Rios leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Ocho Rios 24, Rome 60: Rome leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Ocho Rios 26, Rome 72: Rome leads by 46 points.
Affordability. Ocho Rios 42, Rome 38: Ocho Rios leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ocho Rios 14, Rome 68: Rome leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ocho Rios 50, Rome 40: Ocho Rios leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Ocho Rios and Rome.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Ocho Rios
42match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Rome
Best match
64match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Ocho Rios in July

33 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Rome in July

31 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Ocho Rios's temperatures are measured 62 km from the centre, at Kingston / Norman Manley.

Ocho Rios has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Rome's sunshine is measured 31 km from the centre, at Vigna Di Valle.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ocho Rios: 1991-2020 normals, Kingston / Norman Manley (61.9 km from centre). Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOcho RiosRome
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisItalian
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110112
Elevation59 m21 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre242 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOcho RiosRome
City population16,6712,748,109
People per km²-2,135
Museums within 10 km0178
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km07
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 months

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.